Vendredi 06 Mai 2016 12:07:28 par Annabelle Martella dans Expositions

 New York City – An exhibition of photographs by Mary Ellen Mark will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from May 5 – June 19, 2016. Spanning the breadth of her dazzling career, Attitude: Portraits by Mary Ellen Mark, 1964–2015, celebrates nearly 40 of Mark’s most enduring images. An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Thursday, May 5, from 6 – 8 p.m.

 A related exhibition, Tiny: Streetwise Revisited, Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark, will be on view at Aperture in New York from May 26 – June 30, 2016.

© Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark, who passed away last year, is known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, and notably, her portraiture. Attitude: Portraits by Mary Ellen Mark, 1964–2015 is curated by Melissa Harris, editor-at-large, Aperture Foundation, who notes, “In choosing the images from among many of her key series, I was defining attitude in terms of a sense of self, a kind of awareness and confidence, self-possession.”

The exhibition surveys highlights from many of her series including Indian Circus, humorous and bizarre shots of performers and contortionists and their animals from India’s liveliest circuses; and Falkland Road, gritty images of prostitutes and their patrons on a notorious street in Bombay. Selections from Twins and Prom explore – in large format Polaroids – siblings at the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, and prom-goers across the U.S. Images from Mark’s work for LIFE magazine about the Damms, a homeless family in California, express the grim reality of survival on spare change and welfare checks.

Also on view will be work from Streetwise, which portrays homeless and troubled youth in Seattle including a girl named Tiny. Work from Tiny: Streetwise Revisited, her series completed in 2015, encapsulates Mark’s 30-plus years photographing Tiny, now a middle-aged mother of ten. Mark also photographed on film sets and is known for her celebrity portraits including images of Marlon Brando, Sean Penn, Woody Allen, and Yoko Ono.
Through her work, Mark “got you to feel, without telling you what or how to feel,” noted Harris. “She was passionate and compassionate. Life mattered. Animals mattered. People mattered.”